Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes
Subtitle: A Manual for Optical Evaluation and Adjustment
By: Harold Richard Suiter.
Edition: 1st English ed.
Publisher: Willmann-Bell
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Richmond, Va., USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Telescopes -- Testing -- Amateurs' manuals
Description: This book is about telescopes that work properly and those that do not. If you have a new telescope that is not performing as well as other telescopes of equal aperture, the book gives you a no-nonsense technique of evaluating the optics doing exactly what they were designed to do - image the stars.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: A Introduction to the Author; title: Preface; label: 1
title: Introduction; label: 2
title: An Abbreviated Star-Test Manual; label: 3
title: Telescopes are Filters; label: 4
title: Diffraction; label: 5
title: Conducting the Star Test; label: 6
title: Misalingnment; label: 7
title: Air Turbulence and Tube Currents; label: 8
title: Pinched and Deformed Optics; label: 9
title: Obstruction and Shading; label: 10
title: Spherical Aberration; label: 11
title: Circular Zones and Turned Edges; label: 12
title: Chromatic Aberration; label: 13
title: Roughness; label: 14
title: Astigmatism; label: 15
title: Accumulated Optical Problems; label: A
title: Other Tests; label: B
title: Calculation Methods; label: C
title: Minor Axis and Offset Derivation; label: D
title: Labeling of Diffraction Patterns; label: E
title: Eyepiece Travel and Defocusing Aberration; label: F
title: Glitter in a Shiny Sphere; label: G
title: List of Common Symbols; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography; title: Index